[ILUG] "Munich halts biggest-ever Linux migration"

[Justin Mason]

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Paul Jakma writes:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> > Given that, closed-source is clearly not much help.   (In fact, the
> > GPL includes a clause that would avoid this case, so OSS may actually
> > be less dangerous than closed-source.)
> 
> It does? which clause?

as far as I know, these clauses:

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  This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be
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- --j.
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